July 08, 2008

Excavators find articfacts from the 18th Century buried below Rutgers Stadium.: The crew, working on the Rutgers Stadium Expansion Project (warning: embedded audio), has discovered thousands of artifacts among what are believed to be the remains of a tavern and a house built in the 1700's.

posted by Ufez Jones to culture at 10:12 AM - 4 comments

Greg Schiano is all in favor of this project, thinking that the archaeologists will find artifacts that once belonged to Coach Paterno. That will trigger a new round of carbon dating of Paterno, and Schiano's supporters are hoping that once it is discovered that Paterno is actually over 156 years old, the way will be made clear for Schiano to take over at Penn State. Today and tomorrow, things at the Rutgers stadium site should be fairly normal. Then on Thursday, Geraldo will show up with his metal detector, film crew, and a psychic who has been working on the Hoffa case since 1980.

posted by beaverboard at 02:31 PM on July 08, 2008

Very cool. If Rutgers sells beer at games, I think they have to bring back the Rising Sun Tavern now that they've found it under their stadium.

posted by rcade at 12:16 PM on July 09, 2008

I believe beaverboard has covered everything I would have said.

posted by chicobangs at 01:20 PM on July 09, 2008

I wonder if this gets Rutgers, one of my alma maters, somewhere near the Cool list. But I doubt it.

posted by billsaysthis at 10:17 PM on July 09, 2008

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